Shared library support: Where we are at

[rikki cattermole]

On 13/06/2022 1:52 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> While fixing one of the bugs I have discovered that when using MSVC 
> linker, shared libraries that have symbols that contain Unicode is 
> currently broken.
> 
> It is not on our end. This is a hard blocker for our non-english 
> speaking users.
> 
> It will mean that we have to do something to sanitize those symbol names 
> to make them ASCII in nature.
> 
> Unfortunately we had an incomplete test case in the testsuite that only 
> covered executables.
> 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23179

I did manage to create a fix for this bug, but because of how it was 
discovered we are favoring a wait and see approach to see if it appears 
in the wild.

So if you experience this, please update the bug report!